Christopher Le Brun
| Christopher Mark Le Brun | |
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Christopher Le Brun at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 'Varnishing Day', 2015
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| Born |
20 December 1951 Portsmouth, England, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Slade School of Art 1970–74, Chelsea School of Art 1974–75 |
| Known for | painting, sculpture, printmaking |
| Awards | John Moores Painting Prize 1978 & 1980 Gulbenkian Printmakers Award 1983 DAAD 1987–88 University of the Arts Fellowship 2011 |
Christopher Le Brun PRA (born 1951) is a British artist, known primarily as a painter. He was elected President of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2011.
Le Brun studied painting at the Slade School of Art (1970–74) and Chelsea School of Art (1974–1975). Since then he has taught and lectured extensively at art schools throughout the country, in particular until 1984 at Brighton, The Slade, Chelsea, and Wimbledon. In 1982 he participated in the influential "Zeitgeist" exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin. Following this he had many solo exhibitions in galleries both in Europe and the United States, such as Sperone Westwater, Rudolf Zwirner, Nigel Greenwood, LA Louver and Marlborough Fine Art. Le Brun has exhibited in many significant surveys of international art, including "Nuova Immagine", Milan 1981, "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture", MoMA New York 1984, "Avant-garde in the Eighties", Los Angeles 1987 and "Contemporary Voices", MoMA New York 2005.
He is also a printmaker, for which he was elected to the Royal Academy in 1996 (category engraver), coincidentally the year in which he made his first sculpture.
He was one of the five artists shortlisted for the Angel of the South project in January 2008. In 2011 he was the chief co-ordinator of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. On 8 December 2011 he was elected President of the Royal Academy and interviewed about his role by the Guardian Professional Networks in 2013. He lives and works in London.
The late Bryan Robertson, former director of the Whitechapel Gallery, described Le Brun for the exhibition Christopher Le Brun Paintings 1991–1994 at Marlborough Fine Art, London, as follows:
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